Tender

Property Legal Services (PLS) 3 - Stage 1: Invitation to Participate

  • Department for Work and Pensions

UK4: Tender notice - Procurement Act 2023 - view information about notice types

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-031496

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-05469c

Published 11 June 2025, 12:10pm



Scope

Description

The Authority requires a replacement Property Legal Services (PLS) contract. This contract will allow DWP Estates teams to continue to access property legal services following the conclusion of the existing PLS2 contract, which is due to expire on the 31st of January 2026. This contact, Property Legal Services 3 (PLS3), has been requested by Estates as part of the overall Estates Transformation programme.

The Authority has a defined set of requirements and outcomes as detailed in the Specification.

The specification provisions for all property legal services to DWP Estates across its whole estate; to include real estate advice, conveyancing, and litigation services related to all property matters.

Legal services are also required for property leases (new, breaks and expiry), landlord consents, acquisitions, and disposals, rent review issues, landlord and tenant issues, dilapidations, licence alterations and general property advice.

The Invitation to Participate, including the Procurement Specific Questionnaire and all relevant documentation can be found at:

Potential participants are reminded that they must be registered on the Central Digital Platform: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/procurement-act-2023-short-guides/suppliers-how-to-register-your-organisation-and-first-administrator-on-find-a-tender-in-three-easy-steps-html as this procurement will be undertaken under the Procurement Act 2023.

The Authority (DWP) are holding an awareness session on Wednesday 18th June at 13:00.

If you would be interested in attending, please send your contact details to luke.rowlands@DWP.gov.uk

The slide deck will be made available on the Portal following the event.

Total value (estimated)

  • £14,200,000 excluding VAT
  • £19,500,000 including VAT

Above the relevant threshold

Contract dates (estimated)

  • 26 January 2026 to 25 January 2031
  • Possible extension to 25 January 2033
  • 7 years

Description of possible extension:

For the mutual benefit accruing from a successful collaboration, ongoing needs, or strategic partnership considerations.

Main procurement category

Services

CPV classifications

  • 70000000 - Real estate services

Contract locations

  • UK - United Kingdom

Participation

Legal and financial capacity conditions of participation

This will be evaluated at both stage 1 and stage 2 of the procurement process.

Technical ability conditions of participation

This will be evaluated at both stage 1 and stage 2 of the procurement process.

Particular suitability

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)


Submission

Enquiry deadline

27 June 2025, 12:00pm

Submission type

Requests to participate

Deadline for requests to participate

9 July 2025, 12:00pm

Submission address and any special instructions

Tenders may be submitted electronically

Yes

Languages that may be used for submission

English

Suppliers to be invited to tender

Maximum 5 suppliers

Selection criteria:

Yes

Award decision date (estimated)

14 October 2025

Recurring procurement

Publication date of next tender notice (estimated): 25 January 2030


Award criteria

This table displays the award criteria of the lot
Name Type
Madatory questions as per published Procurement Specific Questionnaire (PSQ) Quality

Weighting description

Please see Instructions to Suppliers published on DWP's eprocurement portal.


Other information

Conflicts assessment prepared/revised

Yes


Procedure

Procedure type

Competitive flexible procedure

Special regime

Light touch

Competitive flexible procedure description

This competitive flexible procedure will be conducted in two (2) stages.

Stage 1 - Inviation to Participate - which will result in 5 potential suppliers being selected to submit a final tender.

Stage 2 - Invitation to submit a final tender - 5 potential suppliers will submit thier commerical and technical bids.


Documents

Documents to be provided after the tender notice

Documents will be provided through DWP's eprocurement portal, if needed.


Contracting authority

Department for Work and Pensions

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PJCP-7274-TLRQ

Caxton House 7th Floor 6-12

London

SW1H 9NA

United Kingdom

Region: UKI32 - Westminster

Organisation type: Public authority - central government